Yellow Pitcher
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Ireland. Described in 1951. Fruits have firm, very white flesh with an insipid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 15th May (10%) · 21st May (full) · 30th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- insipid
- Ribbing
- ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular
- Fruit width
- 63 mm
- Over colour
- occasional pink flush
- Russet type
- russet dots and veins
- Flesh colour
- very white
- Fruit height
- 63 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 69.57 mm
- Height
- 56.54 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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